Posted on 06/28/2020 12:43:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A former Royal Navy diver and Dornoch native has discovered an almost completely intact 5500-year-old cup, hidden in the mud of a loch in the Outer Hebrides... on the Isle of Lewis on Friday...
The location has been kept secret at this stage, but Mr Murray described it as "a beautiful example" of the Neolithic age and was the first person to drink from it in thousands of years.
Mr Murray has also previously discovered similar bowls around mysterious man-made islands in the Outer Hebrides which have led to a "startling" re-writing of history.
The structures - known as crannogs - date back to more than 1000 years before Egypt's pyramids and Stonehenge...
"The archaeologists don't know why they were throwing these pots into the loch nearly 6000 years ago - was it a sacrifice to water gods? I just decided to dive on them out of curiosity and I couldn't believe my eyes. Some lochs were full of pottery. It was incredible, a real archaeological treasure trove."
The search was first sparked in 2011, when Mr Murray recovered a set of remarkably preserved Neolithic treasures submerged around a crannog.
These artificial stone built islands were previously assumed to have been inhabited between the Iron Age and the post-medieval period.
But according to findings published in the journal Antiquity it is now evidential that at least four crannogs in the Outer Hebrides were lived in c.3640-3360 BC, demanding a re-dating on the crannog historical timeline by some 2000 years.
The ancient inhabitants of Scotland were building artificial islands thousands of years earlier than we thought, ancient pottery discovered in the lochs suggests...
(Excerpt) Read more at northern-times.co.uk ...
If memory serves, that one was attributed to a more or less historical ruler?
If they're Scottish, they'll really go crazy that there's no unopened ones.
Those don't get discarded until they've been finished off. :^)
It could be they were just a bunch of butterfingers. :^)
Soooo, cranberry egg nog has existed for thousands of years?
Emphasis on the nog. In fact, screw the cranberries and eggs. :^)
and then when your gone your kids would throw it out.
And was the first person to come down with some unknown disease that the mug harbored.
LOL!
I tend to start off with, "Having rejected the notion that our ancestors spent all their time playing with toys or praying, what other logical explanations are there?"
Sometimes, possibly they were toys or religious objects. But I see no harm in looking at other possibilities.
I have a “bicycle cup” (collapsible and made of metal - Dad called it a bicycle cup because his Dad rode a bicycle and peddled bug and tar remover after coming to America from Poland) from the 20s - before he died, Dad gave it to me as the only item he had that had belonged to his Dad.
Sits in our china cabinet and will go to my son someday.
Thanks..I spent the rest of the night watching Time Team Shows on YouTube. They are really interesting and I actually learned something. Pretty good for an old dog.
And at this entire modern archaeological site not a single person has a cell phone capable of taking a quick pic to go along with the article, amazing....
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